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Dinner · 35 min · 4 bowls

Leek potato soup

Sweat, simmer, blend or don't.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 35 min

easy

Why tonight. Sweat, simmer, blend or don't.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • leek
  • potato
  • stock
  • butter

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: cream.

Method

  1. Slice the leeks and wash them after slicing, in a bowl of water. Grit lives between the layers and will not rinse out of a whole leek.
  2. Butter, lid on, lowest heat, fifteen minutes. You want them melted and sweet, not browned — color here makes the soup taste scorched rather than gentle.
  3. Potato and stock just to cover. Too much liquid and you spend an hour boiling flavor back into it.
  4. Blend completely smooth or not at all — half-blended is the worst of both. Cream off the heat, and lemon or vinegar at the end, which almost nobody adds and everybody notices.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

leek
The gentlest allium — sweet and silky when cooked slowly in fat.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
butter
Flavor and body in the same spoonful.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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